By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Saturday, May 9, 1992
The Record (New Jersey) | Two Star | NEWS | A04
A 31-year-old township man, wanted by North Carolina since 1988 for trafficking in cocaine and heroin, was captured while trying to cash a check, police said Friday.
Wanted on a June 1988 fugitive warrant, Sterling Anthony Mapp surfaced two weeks ago when he tried to open a savings account and cash two checks at the Provident Savings Bank in Teaneck, Police Detective Dean Kazinci said.
Mapp, whose last known address was 443 Cedar Lane, had assumed a new identity: Victor Roberts of the same address, complete with a valid New Jersey driver’s license, Kazinci said.
Victor Roberts Social Security number turned out to be invalid, however, and the teller would not complete the transaction. The bank also reported the incident to police. The teller identified Mapp, through a photograph, as the man who was in the bank, Kazinci said. When Mapp returned to the bank at 12:30 p.m. Thursday to again try to cash the two checks, a teller called police and he was taken into custody for questioning.
An FBI fingerprint check later confirmed Mapp’s identity, although he denied that was his name, Kazinci said. He was charged with possession of a controlled dangerous substance and of narcotics paraphernalia after police found marijuana and a pipe in his possession at the time of his arrest.
He was being held Friday in the Bergen County Jail on $5,000 bail on the Teaneck charges.
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